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Re: wait for non-child PID

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From: Tanaka Akira <akr@xxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: wait for non-child PID
Date: 27 Jul 2000 14:13:30 +0900
In-reply-to: <20000726190953.A22895@xxxxxxxxxxx> (Clint Adams's message of "Wed, 26 Jul 2000 19:09:53 -0400")
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In article <20000726190953.A22895@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
  Clint Adams <schizo@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I'm glad that zsh's wait will wait on processes that aren't children of the
> shell.  Is there a reason that it shouldn't?

A zsh can waits the process, but the zsh doesn't notice its status
change because the zsh is not the parent of it and SIGCHLD cannot
reached to the zsh.  Is it useful?
-- 
Tanaka Akira

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  - From: Tanaka Akira
- Re: wait for non-child PID
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